(1921)

Moscow can obtain:
Ukraine Total
30-40 (for itself 60) 200-220
17-20 37-45
10-20 20-40
Total 257-305
without Ukraine
Tax 170-180
Milling
fee 20-25
Commodity exchange 10-20
Your objections, comrade Bryukhanov?
Total, minimum (after reductions by both Bryukhanov and Rakovsky) = 257 million. Let us discard another 10% for extreme caution: 257-26 = 231 million pud.
And even so we shall manage on 231 : 12 = 19 per month.
Tax...
Milling
Commodity exchange
without Ukraine Ukraine
180 40 (+ 60 for itself)
180
25 17
25
10
215 + 67 = 282
215 + 67 = 282

Written in September 1921
First printed in 1945
in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript
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